J2Ski Forum Posts and Replies by AllyG

Rose,
I'm having enough trouble with French - never mind Finnish! I wish you all the best of luck with your Finnish :D

I did Latin at school as well, but apart from still being able to decline 'mensa' I can remember very little of it, although it does help sometimes with the roots of words in both French and English.

I didn't know Finnish was related to Latin :shock: Finland is surely a long way from Italy? Or did you just mean you were fluent in Latin :wink:

Ally

Still can't get it to work. I will have to have another go

Thanks Pablo,
I have to admit snowboarders do frighten me - they appear from nowhere and then go 'smash' right in front of me - I hate hearing the sound of one behind me. The ski instructors keep telling me to look downhill all the time, but I keep half an eye on who's behind me.

Pablo - would you please take pity on me and tell me how to embed U-tube on here. I managed the link but that was all. You have to remember I was brought up with slide-rules and log tables and imperial measurements etc.


Ally

Are you good at Spanish then Bandit?

Do you fancy composing a Spanish version of the 'bend ze knees' skiers phrase-book for everyone?

Ally

In the video, hadn't they stopped in the middle of the piste?

I'm sorry about what happened to your friend. I hope he's okay now.

Ally

Tino,
I find understanding spoken French very difficult, because they speak so fast and they use different expressions, words, and accents to the ones I was taught at school. So I totally understand your difficulty in understanding Catalan.

If you're good at German maybe you could do the German version of the skiers phrase book?

Ally

Thanks Eljay,
It's amazing how bad we all are at French when I would think most of us studied it at school, and a lot of us ski in France.

The correct version of that is 'Je ne comprends pas' (with the 's') and if you want to be very clever you add on 'ce que vous dites'.

My French was as bad as everyone else's until we went ski-ing in France and I found there were things I wanted to say to French people, (who's English seemed to be as bad as my French), and I felt really frustrated because I'd spend years at school learning French (30 years ago!) and I could remember very little of it. So I decided to go back to adult French classes.

It was simple things I wanted to say - like 'Is that seat free?' in the restaurant.

So, I thought doing a small phrase book specifically written for skiers, would be very helpful. Of course, it would be even better if someone knows of one already, but so far I haven't been able to find one.

What else would you really like to be able to say?

Ally

Eljay,
At least you now have a clean house :D

My house is still dirty :cry:

Ally